One of my plants this year was supposed to be an Antillais Caribbean, a big red Habanero type from the Chinense family, grown from seed purchased from a supplier. But I began to suspect that wasn’t the case when it developed dark stems and leaves. It eventually produced a heavy crop of these small, tailed (most had much more pronounced tails than this one) superhots, they look like mini Reapers. Luckily I isolated some seeds and have brought the plant inside but while I was chopping the pods up for a fermented sauce I noticed this one with a pronounced orange stripe. I saved the seeds (non-isolated in the case of this pods) and will grow them out next year. As far as I know there are no stripey Chinense varieties.

by BenicioDelWhoro

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